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TargetProcess Introduces Free Community Edition of its Agile Project Management Software

June 25, 2008 - TargetProcess Inc., major provider of the agile project management software in North America and Europe announced the launch of the FREE 5-user Community Edition that includes all of the features of its award-wining software. Most of the other players on this market offering free editions impose limitations on either functionality or time that subscribers are allowed to use their tools. With introduction of the Community Edition TargetProcess is waving ALL the barriers for the teams of up to 5 people in accessing its web-based agile project management solution.

"Self-governance is the core principle of the agile teams, therefore we strongly feel that software companies providing tools for agile community are not in the position to decide which features are more or less important for smaller groups - teams should make this call, and thus it's important to provide them with everything product has to offer," Michael Dubakov, CEO and co-founder of TargetProcess said. "We will continue to make every possible effort in order to bring such tools to companies of ALL sizes. We truly hope that other providers will follow our lead," Mr. Dubakov added.

Besides the standard and very intuitive modules such as Iteration and Release planning, Reporting, QA management, TargetProcess includes flexible Time Tracking and Resource allocation capabilities, Help Desk and extensive list of integrations with third-party tools and IDE. As part of the commitment to the agile community, all of the updates to the software that are provided to its paying clients every 2 months, new Community Edition subscribers will be receiving as well.

About TargetProcess
TargetProcess was founded in 2004 with a mission to help software development teams in adopting agile practices and to easily transform inefficient processes into effective ones. With over 300 corporate customers all over the world, TargetProcess continues its rapid growth and development of the new generation agile project management solutions. For more information please visit us at www.targetprocess.com

New release v.2.7 from TargetProcess is what Enterprise has been waiting for

January 4, 2007 – TargetProcess, Inc. provider of the web based tool that helps companies succeed with agile software development, announced a significant update to its agile life cycle solution.

Powerful Report Engine and brand new program level release planning concept provide solid enterprise support and improve scalability of TargetProcess. Getting the right data by creating meaningful and complex custom reports has never been easier. The new tools of this release allow users to successfully report and analyze data resulting in accurate planning of their projects and high level programs.

Among the major improvements of TargetProcess v.2.7 are:

  • Workflow-per-Process allows departments with different workflows to use TargetProcess more effectively. Life-cycles of entities can be now customized according to the needs of individual projects and their teams.
  • Tasks Prioritization allows to set exact tasks priorities within specific user story.
  • Perforce Integration extracts data from commit messages and automatically changes task state, adds time and comments.

“We were targeting better data manipulation and program planning in the latest release. You are putting data into TargetProcess all the time and it is obvious that you want to extract it just as easily. Custom Reports Engine allows you to make custom queries, select columns, set sorting and grouping, add summary columns and build charts. It is a really powerful thing that you can use for reporting in ways we can’t even predict. Then you may export results into Excel and do with this data all that you want.” commented Michael Dubakov, founder and CEO of TargetProcess, Inc.

“Program level release planning is just superb for high level view of the program progress and planning. The interface looks like a greatly simplified Gantt chart that shows all releases for all projects inside the program. Users may modify release dates, assign features and user stories to multiple releases from backlog and immediately see forecasted program release date – all within one screen. AJAX-based user interface brings desktop-like experience for product managers to plan releases. It is really fast and fancy,” said Michael.

“In the next release (currently scheduled for early spring) we are going to proceed with enterprise-level functionality and provide integration platform for many popular tools like Bugzilla, Selenium, Visual Studio and Eclipse.” said Michael

For more details about new functionality in TargetProcess v.2.7 go to: http://www.targetprocess.com/tp27whatsnew.asp

Additional information and online demo version available at: http://www.targetprocess.com

Using your "senses" to Iteration Planning? You bet! Now available in TargetProcess v.2.6

October 17, 2007 - TargetProcess, Inc. provider of the web based tool that helps companies succeed with agile software development, announced a significant update to its agile life cycle solution. Brand new iteration planning concept and great usability improvements power agile teams with better project planning and tracking options. TargetProcess v.2.6 increases productivity via inline editing in lists, improved customizability, superior visualizations and simpler navigation.

Among the major improvements of TargetProcess v.2.6 are:

  • New Iteration Planning visualizes business value and effort parameters of user stories, so you can literary "feel" iteration planning process.
  • Inline Editing in Lists allow people to change information in Excel-like style.
  • Visual Source Safe Integration extracts data from commit messages and automatically changes task state, adds time and comments.

"We were targeting better user experience in the latest release. TargetProcess posses a powerful functionality that will address the needs of agile teams of all sizes. We took time to polish things and enhance the user interface by making it cleaner and easier to navigate. New iteration planning concept is just great, we are very excited about it! It visualizes the most important parameters of user stories and bugs such as effort and priority, thus providing real enjoyment during iteration planning sessions. You really feel user story effort and business value when making a decision about the assignment to iteration" commented Michael Dubakov, founder and CEO of TargetProcess, Inc.

"Inline editing in lists is an outstanding productivity feature. Double click on a row, change required info and simply hit Enter. No page reloads, no waiting! TargetProcess in many aspects is getting closer to usual desktop applications, which is far from reality in most of the web based apps out there. We are continuing to improve TargetProcess usability to make it as easy to use as possible. Simplicity In Mind - that is our goal" says Michael.

The other improvements include features such as: new and more detailed charts, customizable inner lists, customizable dashboards and new dashboard components, new reports.

For more details about new functionality in TargetProcess v.2.6 go to: http://www.targetprocess.com/tp26whatsnew.asp.

TargetProcess 2.3 Released with Web Services API and People Allocations Management

March 20, 2007 - TargetProcess Company is pleased to announce the availability of TargetProcess 2.3, the latest version of its innovative agile project management solution.

TargetProcess is an ASP.NET 2.0 based agile project management software product. TargetProcess helps software development companies to simplify planning, tracking and quality assurance activities. The product is designed to support geographically distributed teams and facilitate agile software development practices like Extreme Programming and SCRUM.

The major new features of this product release are the People Allocations Management and public Web Services API. People Allocations Management provides information about overall people allocations and answers important questions like "Who is overloaded?", "Who is available for upcoming project?", "Who can be re-allocated to another project?", "What assignments each person has?". Web Services API enables various integration scenarios with third-party systems as well as with in-house application.

"Both features are must have in any serious project management solution," said Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess founder. "Integration is a key for many companies and now public API enables about to all integration needs. API is powerful and you may even create custom queries based on NHibernate HQL syntax.

Effective people management in large departments is hard without good tool support. The common practice is to use Excel to control load and people availability. You understand that it is hard to maintain such document in actual state. TargetProcess provides really nice module for people allocations management as well as load report. I should say that TargetProcess becomes more and more enterprise-ready."

The other improvements include
  • Significant performance improvements
  • Lookup lists
  • Custom priority and severity
  • Batch actions improvements
  • Iteration planning improvements

More details about new functionality in TargetProcess 2.3 available at http://www.targetprocess.com/tp23whatsnew.asp.

About TargetProcess

TargetProcess Company is a provider of software for agile development processes. The company was founded in 2004 with a mission to provide software development teams who want to be flexible with modern project management solutions that would help them adopt agile software development practices and easily transform inefficient development processes into new ones.

TargetProcess 2.2 Released with Subversion Integration

February 5, 2007 - TargetProcess Company is pleased to announce the availability of TargetProcess 2.2, the latest version of its innovative agile project management solution.

The major new feature of this product release is the new Subversion Integration module. Subversion Integration enables requirement-to-source code and defect-to-source code visibility as well as reduces time developers spent on putting data into TargetProces.

"In TP 2.2 we've focused on developers needs. Several time-saving features like Subversion Integration and Weekly Time Sheet have been implemented," said Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess founder. "Often developers stand against any APM tool since it takes time to enter data, we've tried to eliminate most of the problems. With Subversion integration TargetProcess may extract data from commit messages and automatically change task state, add time and comments. Weekly time sheet provides simple way to report spent time."

The other improvements include:

  • Printable reports
  • Test cases library
  • Progress reports
  • Simple Active Directory integration

More details about new functionality in TargetProcess 2.2 available at http://www.targetprocess.com/tp22whatsnew.asp.

About TargetProcess

TargetProcess Company is a provider of software for agile development processes. The company was founded in 2004 with a mission to provide software development teams who want to be flexible with modern project management solutions that would help them adopt agile software development practices and easily transform inefficient development processes into new ones.

TargetProcess 2.1 Released

January 5, 2007 - TargetProcess Company is pleased to announce the availability of TargetProcess 2.1, the latest version of its innovative agile project management solution.

TargetProcess is an ASP.NET 2.0 based agile project management software product. TargetProcess helps software development companies to simplify planning, tracking and quality assurance activities. The product is designed to support geographically distributed teams and facilitate agile software development practices like Extreme Programming and SCRUM.

The major new feature of this product release is the new Test Cases module. The Test Cases module allows QA teams to create test cases, bind them to user stories and assigns them to test plans; to create test plans for each build and assign them to QA engineers; to run test plans via Test Runner; and to view Iteration/Release/Build completeness and quality based on test run results.

"Test cases are the time proven practice that closes the gap between development and QA," said Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess founder. "Implementation of the TestCases Module in TargetProcess is a significant step on the way to combining project management, development, QA and other product life cycle tasks into a single integrated solution. Also with TP v2 we will release new versions each five weeks. This is possible since we use agile development practices and TargetProcess for product development coordination."

Next version TargetProcess 2.2 will be released in early February and will include some really useful functionality:

  • Subversion integration
  • Weekly time sheet
  • Test cases library
  • Active Directory support
  • Release notes

More details about upcoming release available at http://www.targetprocess.com/roadmap.asp
Additional information and online demo version available at http://www.targetprocess.com

Reduce Comlexity of Software Project Management with TargetProcess

December 4, 2006 - TargetProcess Company has announced the release of TargetProcess v.2, the next generation project management software product for agile projects.

TargetProcess is an ASP.NET 2.0 based agile project management software product. Designed with simplicity in mind, TargetProcess helps software development companies to reduce the complexity of software project management and simplify planning, tracking and quality assurance activities. The product is designed to support geographically distributed teams and facilitate agile software development practices like Extreme Programming and SCRUM.

“We’ve focused our efforts on users and simplicity in the new version of TargetProcess. User Interface has been significantly re-designed to make frequent tasks easier. We utilize MS AJAX to increase the UI responsiveness. Such features as drag and drop, context actions, customizable lists dramatically improve overall user experience“- said Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess leader. “Based on a solid extensible architecture with long term goals in mind, TargetProcess will evolve into a powerful agile life-cycle management solution”

TargetProcess core features include:

  1. Real-Time Progress Tracking – forecasts release date, provides actual project status and comprehensive information about the current iteration progress.
  2. Full Iterative Development Support – scalable solution for small and large projects. Enables Releases, Iterations, User Stories, Features and Tasks management. Releases and Iteration Planning can be performed via drag and drop interface.
  3. Development Process Customization – different companies and even different projects inside one company often demands different development processes. TargetProcess is designed with the "unique process for unique project" concept in mind.
  4. Integrated Bug Tracking – supports full bug life-cycle management, bugs planning and assignment, automatic notifications, attachments and comments, change history, personalized ToDo lists, complex filters, search and jump by bug id.
  5. Productivity Tools – execute usual tasks faster with the new Bug Submission Tool (Tp.Tray), assign/reassign users from multiple places in the application, drag and drop interface for prioritization and planning.
  6. Customizable Workflows – maps entities life-cycle to your business processes.
  7. Customizable dashboards – create personal dashboards.

TargetProcess v.2 with included 6-month support is priced at $249 per user.